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Gendarmes seize Nigeria-bound ammunition

    COTONOU

    Benin's gendarmes have seized 1,000 firearm cartridges from a vehicle travelling from Burkina Faso to Nigeria, sources close to the national gendarmerie reported.

    The ammunition was confiscated on Thursday in an operation headed by the director general of the gendarmes, General Pancras Brathier. The operation led to the arrest of the suspected mastermind of a network that supplies weapons and ammunition to criminals gangs, the sources said.

    The sources said the arms and ammunition usually come from Burkina Faso, transit through the towns of Cotonou and Porto Novo, Benin's commercial and administrative capitals respectively, and continue on to Nigeria.

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